alpha Tester Tasks

Install by following the instructions at the link provided in your email.

Let me know if you get stuck or if you have any suggestions/clarifications for the instructions

Try to run ePMV- only the basics for today (I don't expect this one to work yet):

Click the icon you made to open ePMV

Click the Fetch Button

Check the box that says [√] MSMS towards the bottom

Zoom to fit all to screen

If it worked, turn off MSMS then play with the other buttons

Restart 3Ds

Test a Filling script

Click the icon you made to open autoPack

Switch to the Fill Tab

Click the [start] button

Zoom to fit all

Click the [Fill] button

If it worked, email me a screenshot

Restart 3Ds

HIV model

Click the icon you made to open autoPack

In the default tab (VIEW), click and drag to select HIV_x_x

Click [Construct]

Wait about 20-30 seconds for the scene to build

You should end up with a nice model of HIV (no lipid bilayer, half of the capsid and matrix and no host cytoplasm, but still a fun model)

Zoom to fit all

Clean up the Scene. In the big dialog box that appears, :

uncheck Bounding Box [ ] Display HistoVolume Box

uncheck Organelles: Capside [ ] Display Geom

uncheck Organelles: Nucleus [ ] Display Geom

Spend a few short minutes to Light and render the scene and send me a fun screengrab along with a nice little render with your signature on it.

I don't know what I'm doing in Max, but even I was able to make a little render in just 10 minutes, so I'd love to see you Max guys take this a step further.

If you have time and patience, go ahead an explore other buttons and let us know what you find, but quit before you get frustrated because we have a lot of kinks to work out and a lot of links to add to make the other options fully functional for Max.